For content creators who leverage the regulatory requirements of the GDPR to refine their customer data-gathering processes and create—or rebuild—trust that such data will be used only to the customer's benefit, the byproduct should be more satisfied, more trusting, and more engaged customers. And that's a worthy goal on either side of the Atlantic.

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EContent got the chance to talk with some of the digital content industry's best and brightest at the Gilbane Digital Content Conference. We asked them a series of questions in the hopes that their answers will help you be better prepared for 2018's challenges. In this installment of Voices of EContent, we asked these leaders in their fields to tell us what advice they would give content creators in 2018. Here are answers from:

Mary LaPlante & Jill Finger Gibson from Digital Clarity Group

Tony Byrne from Real Story Group

Frank Gilbane from Bluebill Advisors

Bruno Herrmann from Nielsen

Tim Bourgeois from East Coast Catalyst and Chief Digital Officer

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